Elena Gritzan is an editor and writer based in Toronto.
She’s a proofreader at Harlequin, and was previously an associate editor at Broadview, the oldest continuously published magazine in North America..
As a writer, her work has appeared The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, and NOW.
She graduated with a master’s in journalism from Ryerson University in 2016. While there, she was the chief copy editor for the Ryerson Review of Journalism. She also has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and psychology from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where she edited Demo, the campus music magazine, and was associate science editor for The Varsity.
Her favourite stories involve science, the supernatural, animals, or people deeply, passionately interested in something. She’s followed a street photographer through snowbanks as he captured a city’s disappearing graffiti; joined a paranormal investigation on the hunt for ghosts; and climbed a mountain with a bat researcher trying to save endangered species.
For years, she reviewed underground Canadian electronic music for Silent Shout. She served on the Polaris Music Prize jury in 2016 and 2017, and still occasionally DJs as Theta Keratine.
She’s on Twitter as @elenagritzan.